Today I’m sitting on our couch surfing the net for anything that will help me with my second job interview for a role that I’m quite keen on. I’ve found quite a bit so now it’s time for a break.

I find myself looking out the sliding glass doors onto Discovery Bay itself. The water is quite still today and a slight grey-blue colour. I was told once that the ocean is the colour it is because of Harpic Flush-matic (pretty impressive for a year 10 Science teacher, that department always did seem to have the best senses of humour) so I’m not sure what’s going down the toilets here today but it’s clearly not a cleaning day!

There’s low cloud that is covering some of the nearby hills so that I can’t make out the top of them. From my vantage point, I can see exactly where the construction of new buildings ends and the forest begins. I have no idea what the trees are but they look dense and more tightly packed than the buildings.

I can hear cicadas and a bird that has a really weird call that is a long hooting sound. I’ve never seen this bird, it just wakes me up in the morning and taunts me throughout the day with its hooting noise. It’s my mission to find this bird so at least I know what it is.

Until I opened the doors, I thought it was a cool day. It’s not. The day has a very Jurassic Park feel to it except for the buildings and lack of pterodactyls, raptors, T-rex etc. I can actually picture them in the forest on the other side of the bay. This side doesn’t have the forest so there is no reason for them to hang out here.

This deceptive weather has tricked me all week. I was caught on the first day thinking it would be cool because it had been raining. It wasn’t. The second day looked the same as the first so I thought that it would be warm and humid when I stepped out to take our mini-dinosaur for a walk. It wasn’t. The third day looked exactly the opposite of the previous two. I thought I could hedge my bets and think that it would be warm at the start of the day and cool in the evening. It wasn’t. I think you get the idea.

I don’t make any temperature judgments now based on what I can see outside. I open a door.

I think I’ll take this experience into the interview in response to the inevitable question of “What have you done when things haven’t been as they appeared?”

Second thoughts, it’s probably better if I have a work-related answer prepared given that my role would have nothing to do with weather.

Cross your fingers for Tuesday morning and send positive thoughts – the more the merrier!